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WRITTEN FOR THE SUMTER CELEBRATION (RAISING THE OLD FLAG,; 
APRIL 14, 1865. 

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' The Lightning flashing freely 
Across our broad domain, 
Proclaims the land's Redemption 
From Suav'rt's galling chain. 



_^ " The Nation rises disenthrall'd 

SL^Bg^^^^a From its infernal sway — 

'^^^'^^^^k From long darlc night of sorrow 

r^i^jttit^i? Now gleams a brighter day." 



I. The American Jubilee. 
II. Freedom Triumphstnt. 



III. The American Freedmen. 

IV. The Heroes and Martyrs, 



NEW YORK— 1865. 

PUBLISHED (WITH LORETZ'S MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENTS) BY THE 

AMEEIOAN NEWS COMPANY, 121 NASSAU STREET. 

C. S. VVe'^tcoU <£ Co.'s Union Prinling Huuse, 79 John street. 



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BnUrii acooriUog to tli« net gf Congreu. tn the year 1885, br Henry O'Rielly, In tlie ClerX'n offloe of Ui« Dlstl-lcl Court of 
tha United Statea, fur (be Kaatern Dlatriut of New York. 



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NATIONAL ANTHEMS. 



^g*- The Publishers of HENEY O'EIELLY'S AMERICAN ANTHEMS take pleasure 
in quoting the opinions expressed by the Patriarch of American Poetry and of the 
American Press, to whom an advance copy of the first three had been sent — opinions 
like those expressed since then by other eminent citizens. In the New York Evening 
Post, of July 5, Mr. BRYANT speaks thus : 

"American Anthems. — Three patriotic poems, written for music by Henry O'Eielly, 
have been set to music by John M. Loretz, and published by the American News Com- 
pany in this city, with the title of ' American Anthems on the Triumph of Liberty and 
Union over Slavery and Treason.' The occasion for which they were written was the 
Sumter celebration, when the old flag was raised on the fort of that name, but THEY 
WILL BEAR SINGING FOR A CENTURY TO COME. The three anthems 
are : 'The American JubUee,' 'Fi-eedom Triumphant,' and 'The American Freedmen.' 
They celebrate the great victory just achieved over the armies of slavery and treason, 
and point to the duties which so glorious a victory devolves on those who achieved it. 
The words are spirited, full of enthusiasm, and the music of a similar character, ex- 
pressive of exultation, gratitude, and hope." 

The Fourth Anthem, since piinted, refers to the services and sufferings, in battle-fields 
and rebel dungeons, of the ' ' Heroes and Martyrs of Freedom. " 



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AMERICAN ANTHEMS, 



ON THE TEIUMPH OF 
OVER SLAVERY 



LIBERTY AND 
AND TREASON. 



UNION 



THE AMEEIOAU JUBILEE : 

AN ANTHEM, WEITTEN BY HENBY o'BIELLY, 
For the Sumter CeUbration , April 14, 1865. 

(Music by John M. Loretz, Jr.) 

1. — The joyous bells loud ringing, 

The cannon's thund'ring roar, 
Sound " Victory and Umo-v," 

With Peace from shore to snore — 
The Nation's Fame and Freedom, 

By Slavery assail'd, 
Triumphant over Treason ! — 
Triumphant in the field ! 

Chorus — Freedom's Flag now float.'; aloft, 
Our Eagles j)roi)dly soa.r ! 
Secession and vile Slav'ry 

Shall curse the land no mori? ! 
Confed'rate Treason vanish'd , 
Like foul and fitful dream — 
The Great Republic triumph.?, 
And Freedom reigns supreme ! 

2. — Fierce war and desolation — 

Long years of bloody strife — 
Are ended now triumphantly — 

The Nation gains new life ! 
Rebellion born of Slavery 

Now from its ramparts hurl'd, 
The Starry Flag (at last I) shines forth 

Resplendent through the World. 

CItorus — 

3. — This God-sent victory belongs 

Not to one clime alone : — 
Like Heav'nly dew, its blessings 

Descend on ev'ry zone. 
For HtTMAN Rights Triumphamt, 

Old Afric's ransom'd hordes 
And Europe's burthen'd millions 

Shall strike the joyful chords ! 



4. — long wave the Starry Banner ! 
And let all Nations see, 
By Slavery unclouded. 
The Embuoi or thb Frb» !— 



Its Stars ALL gleaming brightly — 

Its glories high unfurl'd — 
The Sign of Hope and Triumph 
For Freedom through the World ! 

Chorus — Freedom's Flag now floats aloft, 
Our Efigles proudly soar ! 
Secession and vile Slav'ry 

Shall curse the land no more ! 
Confed'rate Treason vanish'd, 
Like foul and fitful dream — 
The Great Republic triumphs, 
And Freedom reigns supreme ! 



FEEEDOM TRIUMPHANT : 

LX ANTHEM, WEITTEN BY HENKY O'EIELLY, 
For the Sumter Celebration, April 14, 1865. 

(Music by John M. Loretz, Jr.) 

1. — Through all the Great Republic, 
Give thanks to God on high ! — 
Reioice with adoration. 

Where'er our Eagles fly ! 
Brave loyal Union Armies, 
By Providence sustain'd. 
Through thousand battles struggling. 

Have crowning triumph gain'd. 
Chorus — Now, honor our brave Soldiery, 
And gallant Sailors, too — 
Defenders of the Starry Flag — 

The Red, the White and Blue— 
With cheers for Loyal Unionists, 

To Human Freedom true — 
Champions of Goduke JusncK 
For Mbn of Kt'bt Hxra. 

2. — The Lightning flashing freely 
Across our broad domain, 
Proclaims the land's Redemption 
From Slav'ry's galling chain. 
The Nation rises disenthrall'd 

From its infernal sway — 
From long dark night of sorrow, 
Now gleams a brighter day. 

Choru4~< 



AMEKICAN ANTHEMS. 



3. — The horrors of the dungeon, 
The carnage of the fleld, 
Our Soldiers met undaunted— 

Their blood our triumph seal'd. 
The Vet'rans of our Armies, 

Ennobled by their scars, 
Deserve a Nation's Welcome — 
Warm wixcx)siE from the Wars. 

Chorus — 

4. — Columbia's gallant Martyrs ! 

Slain Champions of the Right ! — 
Their names are brightly blazon'd 

In Glory's living light I 
Tliroughout a grateful Nation, 
From mountain to the sea. 
Their memories are hallow'd 
With blessings of the Free I 

Chorus — 

0. — parents, sisters, brothers. 

Whose hearts are rent by wo, 
Rejoice in Freedom's Triumph — 

Toars should no longer flow : — 
The Union Cause, the Starry Flag, 

For which your lov'd-oues fell. 
By Heaven's aid have conquer'd. 

And NOW all's going well. 

Chorus — Now, honor our brave Svldiery, 

And gallant Sailors, too — 
Defenders of the Starry Flag — 

The Red, the White and Blue— 
With cheers for Loyal Unionists, 

To Human Freedom true — 
Champions of Godlike Justice 

For Men of Ev'ry Hue. 



IXX. 

THE AMERICAN FREEDMEN 

WRITTEN BY HENKY o'eiELLY. 
(Music by John M. Loretz, Jr.) 



1. — Slavery's rebel warfare done — 

The bloody conflict past — 
The battle fought, the triumph won. 

And Freedom reigns at last ! 
Bondmen brave, their shackles breaking 

Clad now in Freedom's blue — 
For our Nation boldly battling. 

Fought gallantly and true ! 

Chitrus — Freedmen's blood flowed free in battle, 
Beside the White Men true — 
Battling for Justice and Freedom 
For Men of Ev'ry Hue : — 
Then, cheers for the faithful Freeduieu, 
Long curs'd by servile chains, 
. Who fought for our Flag and Union, 
'Till Peace triumphant reigus. 



2.— From Mississippi's cotton land, 
Virginia's "sacred soil"— 
And from other Rebel regions, 

Rush'd sable sons of toil- 
Rushing with sturdy willing arms- 
Two hundred thousand strong 

For the Rights of Man contending, 
'Mid battles fierce and long. ] 

Chorus — 
3. — At old Carolina's harbors,' 

Port Hudson's crimson'd plain — 
In Olhistee's fatal forest — 

At Pillow foully slain I — ^ 

At Richmond's towering ramparts, 

Where Treason fierce held sway — 
The valiant Freedman's flowing blood 
Bedew'd the victor's way. 

Chorus — 
4. — The loyal suflfering white men, 
Fleeing from Rebel sway, 
Receiv'd from the swarthy millions 

Kind succor on their way. 
Tho' tortur'd in Rebel dungeons, 

The loyal white men brave 
Found always good faith and comfort 
hi cabins of tho slave.* 

Chorus — 
6. — In the battle-fields of Freedom — 
In midnight march profound — 
Sturdy loyalty and guidance 

In color'd men were found : 
And now, when Peace and Liberty 
Shed blessings through the land, 
Let the Rights of Human Nature 

BU shared with GEn'ROUS H-tND. 

CiMrus — 
6. — The Nation's power and freedom — 
Its glory or its shame — 
By Sable as by White Men watch'd— 

All anxious for its fame — 
May ever be safely guarded. 
In peace-time and in wars, 
By GIVING THE Rights of Free Men 
To ALL Men under the " Stars. " 

C/wrMS— Freedmen's blood flowed free in battle, 
Beside tho White Men true — 
Battling for Justice and Freedom 

For Men of Ev'ry Hue : — 
Then, cheers for the faithful Freedmen, 

Long curs'd by .servile chains. 
Who fought for our Flag and Union, 
'Tin Peace triumphant reigns. 

* " How have the Negroes behaved duri.vo the whole 
" WAR?" said General Andrew Jackson Hamilton, United 
States Provisional Governor of Texas, when addressing 
the citizens of Houston. " You (Slaveholders and Se- 
" cessionists) said that servile insurrection would be 
" stirred up : But never — never — was there, among any 
" people (so situated and having suoh hopes), such or- 

" DEK — such GOOD BEHAVIOUR — SUch GODLIKE PATIENCE." 

— " The colored men have done well," says the United 
States Provisional (Jovornor of Georgia (Johnson) — 
" BETTER, BV FAR, than auy other race under Heaven 
would havo done, under similar circumstances." 



AMERICAN ANTHEMS. 



THE HEROES AND MAETYES OP 
FEEEDOM. 



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WRITTEN BY HENKY O KIELLY. 

(Music by John M. LorPtz, Jr.) 

•The hearts and homes made desolate 

By the fierce Secession wars — 
The vet'rans of our battle-fields, 

Marked by their martial scars — 
The gory graves o'er all the land — 

The ties of kindred broken — 
Everywhere, thro' North and South, 

Proclaim War's horrid token. 



Chorus — Yet, thro' all Rebellion's horrors. 

Bright shines our Nation's fame — 
Our gallant Soldiers, perishing. 

Have won immortal name. 
The hopes, the fears, the blood, the tears 

That mark'd the bitter strife. 
Are now all crown'd by Victory 

That sav'd the Nation's Life. 

2. — A thousand battle-fields have drank 
The blood of warriors brave — 
And countless homes are dark and drear, 

Thro' the land they fought to save : — 
But the Rebel-dungeon horrors 
Fall most sadly on the soul — 
Where our starv'd and tortur'd soldiers 
Swell'd the murderous Death-Roil, 

Clwrus — 
3. — 1 Andersonville and Libhy ! 
! Sal'sbury and Belle Isle I 
By Slavery's rebel leaders 
Begrimed with torments vile I 



Your cruelty to prisoners 
Will reek darkly through all time, 

Link'd with Dahomeyan horrors 
And the infamy of crime. * 

Chorus — 

4. — The blood of our murder'd soldiers. 
In the Rebel dungeons slain, 
Stamp'd the Slavemongers' Rebellion 

With its darkest, foulest stain — 
From Earth to Heaven appealing 

For God's vengeance on the foe — 
And hell-born Slav'ry dies accurs'd — 
Baleful cause of all this wo 1 

Chorus — 

5. — And now, before Heaven's altars, 

By ev'ry home and fireside, 
Let us vow that Freedom's Banner 

Still triumphantly shall ride 
Thro' all storms of war and treason — 

Over battle's bloody tide — 
In defence of Human Freedom, 

For which our kinsmen died. 

Chorus — And thro' all Rebellion's horrors, 

Bright shines our Nation's fame — 
Our gallant Soldiers, perishing, 

Have won immortal name. 
The hopes, the fears, the blood, the tears. 

That mark'd the bitter strife, 
Are now all crown'd by Victory 

That sav'd the Nation's Life. 



* (Note to the Second Edition.) — In publishing the tes- 
timony on the Wirz Trial, the New York Herald says: — 
"For the sake of the truth of history, we call attention 
to the evidence of the Rebel Inspector General Chandler, 
implicating Winder and all the Rebel authorities in the de- 
liberate, cold-blooded scheme to murder our prisoners. 
History has never before recorded such horrible atroci- 
ties, nor painted such terrible scenes ; nor can its most 
diligent student find traces of characters so deliberately 
cruel or demoniacal." * * * * 



megraph Office, New York. 1865, 



NOTE. 

^S^ The length of these Anthems may render it expedient occasionally, in singing, to 
sing the chorus only after the first and last stanzas of each song. 



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